{"id":9539,"date":"2011-09-23T10:48:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T10:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/slowly_new_york_subways_get_cell_service.html"},"modified":"2011-09-23T10:48:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T10:48:21","slug":"slowly-new-york-subways-get-cell-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/slowly-new-york-subways-get-cell-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Slowly, New York Subways get Cell Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GSM customers rejoice, finally you will be able to use your cellphones in the subways of New York. As someone who has gotten lost navigating my way around down there, I am grateful this day has finally come. AT&#038;T and T-Mobile customers will be the first to enjoy this new service which will be a godsend for tourists who like me aren&#8217;t that familiar with how to get around the tunnels crisscrossing the Manhattan underground.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New York Times:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The pilot program will introduce cellphone reception to  the C-E platforms at 23rd Street and Eighth Avenue   and three other stations along West 14th Street: the A, C, E and L  platforms at Eighth Avenue; the F, M and L platforms at Avenue of the  Americas; and the Seventh Avenue station that serves the Nos. 1, 2 and 3  lines.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the project was stalled due to financing issues &#8211; lets hope we see coverage throughout the entire New York subway system and soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSM customers rejoice, finally you will be able to use your cellphones in the subways of New York. As someone who has gotten lost navigating my way around down there, I am grateful this day has finally come. AT&#038;T and T-Mobile customers will be the first to enjoy this new service which will be a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,168,172,196,118,174,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}